The Oldowan
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Interdisciplinary Approaches To The Oldowan
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Author : Erella Hovers
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-03-08
Interdisciplinary Approaches To The Oldowan written by Erella Hovers and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-08 with Social Science categories.
An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6–1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.
The Oldowan
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Author : Kathy Diane Schick
language : en
Publisher: Stone Age Institute Press
Release Date : 2006
The Oldowan written by Kathy Diane Schick and has been published by Stone Age Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Science categories.
The earliest traces of proto-human technology emerged over 2.5 million years ago on the African continent. Called the Oldowan after the famous site of Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, these technologies herald a major evolutionary shift in the human lineage. The Oldowan: Case Studies into the Earliest Stone Age provides a critical look at early archaeological sites and their evidence. This volume also shows how a range of probing, multidisciplinary, experimental investigations - including experimental tool-making, comparative studies of ape technologies, biomechanical analysis, and PET studies of brain activity - help us evaluate this tantalizing prehistoric evidence and appreciate its relevance to human evolution.
Interdisciplinary Approaches To The Oldowan
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Author : Erella Hovers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-12-17
Interdisciplinary Approaches To The Oldowan written by Erella Hovers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-17 with Social Science categories.
An understanding of the uniquely human behavior of stone tool making tackles questions about hominins’ ability to culturally transmit and expand their base of social and practical knowledge and their cognitive capacities for advanced planning. The appearance of stone tools has often been viewed as a threshold event, impacting directly and profoundly the later course of cultural and social evolution. Alternatively, it has been understood as a prelude to significant succeeding changes in behavioral, social and biological evolution of hominins. This book presents a series of recent enquiries into the technological and adaptive significance of Oldowan stone tools. While anchored in a long research tradition, these studies rely on recent discoveries and innovative analyses of the archaeological record of ca. 2.6–1.0 million years ago in Africa and Eurasia, dealing with the earliest lithic industries as manifestations of hominin adaptations and as expressions of hominin cognitive abilities.
The Emergence Of The Acheulean In East Africa And Beyond
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Author : Rosalia Gallotti
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-17
The Emergence Of The Acheulean In East Africa And Beyond written by Rosalia Gallotti and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-17 with Science categories.
This edited volume presents current archaeological research and data from the major early Acheulean sites in East Africa, and addresses three main areas of focus; 1) the tempo and mode of technological changes that led to the emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa; 2) new approaches to lithic collections, including lithic technology analyses; and 3) the debated coexistence of the Developed Oldowan and the early Acheulean. The chapters are the proceedings from the workshop titled “The Emergence of the Acheulean in East Africa”, held at University of Rome “La Sapienza” on September 12–13, 2013. The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers currently working in this field in East Africa, in order to define the characteristics and the evolution of the early Acheulean. The volume was expanded with some chapters on the preceding Oldowan, on the African fauna and on paleovegetation, on the Acheulean in Asia and, eventually, on the Acheulean in Europe. The book is addressed to the scientific community, and will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, archaeologists, paleontologists, and paleoanthropologists. This volume is dedicated to the memory of Jean Chavaillon (March 25, 1925 - December 21, 2013), the leading archaeologist and Quaternary geologist who researched with unfailing enthusiasm the earliest human cultures and directed from 1965 to 1995 the French Archaeological Mission at Melka Kunture.
Human Prehistory
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Author : Deborah Barsky
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-18
Human Prehistory written by Deborah Barsky and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-18 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a concise overview of human prehistory. It shows how an understanding of the distant past offers new perspectives on present-day challenges facing our species - and how we can build a sustainable future for all life on planet Earth. Deborah Barsky tells a fascinating story of the long-term evolution of human culture and provides up-to-date examples from the archaeological record to illustrate the different phases of human history. Barsky also presents a refreshing and original analysis about issues plaguing modern globalized society, such as racism, institutionalized religion, the digital revolution, human migrations, terrorism, and war. Written in an accessible and engaging style, Human Prehistory is aimed at an introductory-level audience. Students will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the interdisciplinary, scientific study of human prehistory, as well as the theoretical interpretations of human evolutionary processes that are used in contemporary archaeological practice. Definitions, tables, and illustrations accompany the text.
Evolution Of The Human Diet
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Author : Peter S. Ungar
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2007
Evolution Of The Human Diet written by Peter S. Ungar and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Science categories.
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Origins Of Human Innovation And Creativity
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Author : Scott A. Elias
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2012-12-31
Origins Of Human Innovation And Creativity written by Scott A. Elias and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Innovation and creativity are two of the key characteristics that distinguish cultural transmission from biological transmission. This book explores a number of questions concerning the nature and timing of the origins of human creativity. What were the driving factors in the development of new technologies? What caused the stasis in stone tool technological innovation in the Early Pleistocene? Were there specific regions and episodes of enhanced technological development, or did it occur at a steady pace where ancestral humans lived? The authors are archaeologists who address these questions, armed with data from ancient artefacts such as shell beads used as jewelry, primitive musical instruments, and sophisticated techniques required to fashion certain kinds of stone into tools. Providing ‘state of art’ discussions that step back from the usual archaeological publications that focus mainly on individual site discoveries, this book presents the full picture on how and why creativity in Middle to Late Pleistocene archeology/anthropology evolved. Gives a full, original and multidisciplinary perspective on how and why creativity evolved in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Enhances our understanding of the big leaps forward in creativity at certain times Assesses the intellectual creativity of Homo erectus, H. neanderthalensis, and H. sapiens via their artefacts
Human Beginnings In South Africa
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Author : H. J. Deacon
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 1999
Human Beginnings In South Africa written by H. J. Deacon and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The Stone Age is now beginning to be recognised as vital in establishing who we are and where we have come from. This period has long been neglected.
The First Peoples Of Oman Palaeolithic Archaeology Of The Nejd Plateau
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Author : Jeffrey I. Rose
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2019-07-31
The First Peoples Of Oman Palaeolithic Archaeology Of The Nejd Plateau written by Jeffrey I. Rose and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-31 with Social Science categories.
The archaeological evidence presented in this work encompasses the cultural remains of over a million years of successive human occupation of Nejd Plateau, Dhofar, from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Late Palaeolithic. This volumes suggests a fundamental reconsideration of the role of Southern Arabia in the origin and dispersal of our species.
World Prehistory And Archaeology
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Author : Michael Chazan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-04-30
World Prehistory And Archaeology written by Michael Chazan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with Social Science categories.
World Prehistory and Archaeology provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods, presenting an up-to-date perspective on what we know about our human prehistory and how we come to know it. A cornerstone of World Prehistory and Archaeology is the discussion of prehistory as an active process of discovery. Methodological issues are addressed throughout the text to engage readers. Archaeological methods are introduced, following which the question of how we know the past is discussed. This fifth edition involves readers in the current state of archaeological research, revealing how archaeologists work and interpret what they find. Through the coverage of various new research, author Michael Chazan shows that archaeology is truly a global discipline. In this edition there is a particular emphasis on the relevance of archaeology to contemporary society and to the major issues that face us today. This edition will provide students with a necessary grounding in the fundamentals of archaeology, before engaging them with the work that goes into understanding world prehistory. They will be given the tools to place this knowledge in the context of the modern world, acknowledging the relevance of archaeology to the concerns of today.